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Image of Rye Beach, N.H.

Henry Greenwood Peabody , (1855–1951)

Rye Beach, N.H.

c. 1904
7 x 8 7/8 in. (18 x 23 cm)

Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print
Credit Line: gift of Lauren and Michael Lee
Accession Number: 2018.69

Commentary

A photographer, lecturer, and publisher of educational slides and films, Henry Greenwood Peabody produced thousands of images documenting the American landscape. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Greenwood first became interested in photography while a senior at Dartmouth College and produced views of the campus and scenes along the New England coast.

In addition to owning several photographic studios for which he specialized in marine, landscape, and architectural photography, he also served as official photographer for the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Great Northern Railway, and photographed the America’s Cup races. In 1898, he accepted a position with the Detroit Publishing Company, the largest postcard publisher in the United States.
Peabody served as field photographer on both the East and West Coasts from 1900 to 1908. Famed landscape photographer and company founder William Henry Jackson selected Peabody for this position because of the high regard in which he held the latter’s outdoor work. Because of copyright arrangements, many of the images Peabody created for the Detroit Publishing Company have been wrongly identified as those of Jackson.

This image of Rye Beach was most likely included in an album published by the Detroit Publishing Company titled “Views of the New England Coast” which included 98 photographs by Peabody documenting harbors, shorelines, lighthouses, hotels, and bathing scenes from Hull, Massachusetts to

Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. In addition to Rye Beach, locations included Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Isle of Shoals and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Monhegan Island and Bar Harbor, Maine to name a few.

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